|  | Posted by Don on 01/03/06 13:42 
Thanks! I'll chase it up.
 BTW, that seems to be one of the problems. There are bits of
 information here and there but no definitive document.
 
 I'm a bit surprised about this because I would've though this to be a
 standard which is in the public domain
 
 Don.
 
 On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:10:41 GMT, Lance <lltbhill@link_earth.net>
 wrote:
 
 >This might help, but only parts of it are online (the author wants to
 >sell the rest):
 >http://www.dvd-replica.com/DVD/productinfo.php
 >
 >Lance
 >*****
 >
 >Don thought carefully and wrote on 1/2/2006 6:54 PM:
 >> I'm looking for definitive and current technical documentation (a
 >> White Paper?) on DVD data structure/layout. Not just video files but
 >> the underlying structures.
 >>
 >> Specifically:
 >> - How much space does a file really occupy on a DVD i.e is each file
 >> rounded up to a sector (2048 bytes) or an ECC block (32KB)?
 >> - What's the layout of lead-in and lead-out?
 >> - What's the layout of a TOC?
 >> - How it all fits together... etc.
 >>
 >> I tried googling but get swamped with either superficial hardware info
 >> or how to defeat various copy protection schemes... :-/
 >>
 >> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
 >>
 >> Don.
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